[mythtvnz] configuring hvr-2200 card

[Roger Searle]

On 16/09/11 07:50, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Roger Searle<roger.searle at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi, my first venture into mythtv, I have 0.24 + fixes installed on Linux
>> Mint 11 and using the box as combined front/backend.  HVR-2200 card
>> installed, and have the drivers installed as per
>> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-2200
>>
>> I'm stuck and not sure where I should go from here, below is as much as
>> I've been able to manage, any advice gratefully accepted.
>>
>> lspci -v
>>
>> 02:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7164 (rev 81)
>>      Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV HVR-2200 (submodel
>> 89619)
>>      Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
>>      Memory at fcc00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
>>      Memory at fc800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
>>      Capabilities:<access denied>
>>      Kernel driver in use: saa7164
>>      Kernel modules: saa7164
>>
>>
>> But according to dmesg I'm not quite there:
>>
>> roger at gemini ~ $ dmesg | grep 7164
>> [    1.043204] pci 0000:02:00.0: [1131:7164] type 0 class 0x000480
>> [   16.312461] saa7164 driver loaded
>> [   16.315258] saa7164 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A ->  GSI 19 (level, low) ->
>> IRQ 19
>> [   16.315262] saa7164[0]: Your board isn't known (yet) to the driver.
>> [   16.315263] saa7164[0]: Try to pick one of the existing card configs via
>> [   16.315264] saa7164[0]: card=<n>  insmod option.  Updating to the latest
>> [   16.315265] saa7164[0]: version might help as well.
>> [   16.315267] saa7164[0]: Here are valid choices for the card=<n>
>> insmod option:
>> [   16.315269] saa7164[0]:    card=0 ->  Unknown
>> [   16.315270] saa7164[0]:    card=1 ->  Generic Rev2
>> [   16.315271] saa7164[0]:    card=2 ->  Generic Rev3
>> [   16.315272] saa7164[0]:    card=3 ->  Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250
>> [   16.315274] saa7164[0]:    card=4 ->  Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2200
>> [   16.315275] saa7164[0]:    card=5 ->  Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2200
>> [   16.315277] saa7164[0]:    card=6 ->  Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2200
>> [   16.315278] saa7164[0]:    card=7 ->  Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250
>> [   16.315279] saa7164[0]:    card=8 ->  Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250
>> [   16.315850] CORE saa7164[0]: subsystem: 0070:8940, board: Unknown
>> [card=0,autodetected]
>> [   16.315855] saa7164[0]/0: found at 0000:02:00.0, rev: 129, irq: 19,
>> latency: 0, mmio: 0xfcc00000
>> [   16.315860] saa7164 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
>> [   16.315870] saa7164_initdev() Unsupported board detected, registering
>> without firmware
>>
>>
>> Further reading suggests "modprobe saa7164 card=3" (which returns no
>> output so presume that went OK?).  However nothing in /dev?
>>
>> roger at gemini ~ $ ls /dev | grep dvb
>> roger at gemini ~ $ ls /dev | grep video
>>
>> Not surprisingly, attempts to add a "DVB DTV capture card (v3.x)" in
>> mythtv backend do not allow getting the focus to the "DVB device number"
>> field.
> What does dmesg say after the  "modprobe saa7164 card=3" is executed?
There are no additional lines in dmesg...